IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE
LLL
OPINION
FUTURE
CAMPUS.
Are you a first year student
coming to UBC?
Think About the UBC Faculty of Arts
Arts One and Co-ordinated Arts Programs
Arts One and CAP are two options for first-year students that:
✓ introduce you to university life and to the range of subject matter
humanities and social sciences- offered in the UBC Faculty of Arts;
provides a welcoming, supportive, and challenging learning environment
directed by faculty members of proven scholarly and teaching excellence;
✓ has small seminar and lecture groups that are central to your experience in
both programs;
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provides opportunities to get to know your professors and develop friendships
with your fellow students;
upon completing CAP or Arts One and 12 elective credits, you enter 2nd year
and proceed into any Faculty of Arts degree program.
Find further info, including contacts, on our websites:
artsone.arts.ubc.ca
cap.arts.ubc.ca
Arts NE
UBC
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CO-ORDINATED
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ARTS PROGRAM
Arts One and Co-ordinated Arts Programs
University of British Columbia
Irving K Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall, Third Floor, Room 379
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
www.artsone.arts.ubc.ca
www.cap.arts.ubc.ca
arts.one@.ubc.ca
cap.arts@ubc.ca
INFORMATION PACKAGE FOR HIGH SCHOOL
GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS, ADVISORS, TEACHERS
We appreciate the critical role you have in assisting grade twelve students make decisions about their
future. They do have an increasing number of educational options from which to choose. Please allow us
to draw your attention to two first-year programs at the University of British Columbia.
This package contains a small poster and brochures of the UBC Arts One & Co-ordinated Arts
Programs, which we would appreciate you making available to interested students and/or colleagues. As
well, we post all information and updates on our web sites.
http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca
http://cap.arts.ubc.ca
As you may know, Arts One & CAP are two comprehensive first-year programs offered by the UBC
Faculty of Arts for entering first-year students. Our brochures describe each program's main features.
They also give answers to questions most commonly asked by prospective students and provide details
on how to reach us for more information.
All of our students are self-selecting. Once they are admissible to the Faculty of Arts at the University of
British Columbia they are free to choose Arts One or CAP. The type of student who does well in our
programs tend to have three qualities: they enjoy reading challenging texts; they are keen to engage in
responsible discussion of key issues; they are decent writers.
If your school is in the Vancouver area we encourage you and/or your students to visit one of our
lectures; we would be thrilled to arrange your visit.
Arts One has a dedicated "School Counselors, Teachers, Advisors" page in the Resources section of
our website. Do feel free to contact us with comments or suggestions.
If you have any questions or concerns please let us know. Our contact info can be found in the address
block at the top of this page, in our brochures, and on our websites.
Thank you for your work with your students. We look forward to providing your students with the best
possible beginning to their university education.
Sincerely,
Arts One and Co-ordinated Arts Programs
UBC Faculty of Arts
We'd love to hear from you! Please contact us by email:
arts.one@.ubc.ca
cap.arts@ubc.ca
IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE
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➤ ARTS ONE:
Choose either Group A or Group B. Base your decision upon which theme you find of interest
IMPORTANT NOTE: GROUP B WILL HAVE A NEW THEME BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 2015.
Register for the Arts One lecture (100 students), as well as one of the associated seminar groups (20 students).
The small tutorial (4 students) is scheduled in September during class.
Groups (A or B) meet as a whole once a week for a two-hour lecture.
Each group of approximately 100 First-Year students then divide into Seminars, consisting of a faculty member
(your professor for the year) and no more than 20 students. These meet twice a week for periods of one hour and a
half each to discuss the texts.
Each seminar then divides into tutorial groups of 4, meeting with that professor once a week for an hour. In tutorials
the focus of attention is the students written work and peer review.
An Arts One week = one lecture, two seminars, and a tutorial; 18 credits is the equivalent of three 6-credit courses.
Students will read each book, attend the major lecture each week, participate in two seminars each week, submit
10-12 essays and attend tutorials to discuss each essay, and write a final examination.
In Arts One there is a structured reading and writing schedule in that students are required to read approximately a
book a week and write a 1500-word paper every two weeks. The repetitive nature of this schedule ensures first-rate
writing habits.
Arts One satisfies the Faculty of Arts Writing Requirement and also fulfills 3 credits of the University Literature
Requirement.
Visit the Arts One website for updates and details about the themes offered. http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca
➤ CO-ORDINATED ARTS PROGRAM (CAP):
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Choose one of several streams/themes. Base your decision upon which theme you find of interest.
Remember to register for all associated small seminar/discussion groups.
Students will meet with the same group of approximately 100 First-Year students in each of their lecture classes
and subsequent discussion groups.
Students in CAP must take all 18 credits of coursework in a thematic stream, which are coordinated via timetabling,
room locations, and assignment and examination due dates. Students may NOT take separate sections that are a
part of the CAP stream (nor can mainstream students take portions of CAP).
Students receive academic credit for the courses making up the specific stream for their cohort.
ASTU is an Arts Studies seminar course that will compliment the CAP lectures and hone your writing and critical
thinking skills. It will teach you to produce knowledge at a university level and develop skills that you will obviously
carry over into other courses.
ASTU classes visit the Library where a CAP-dedicated librarian assists students with 'how-to-use-the-library'
techniques, using their actual CAP assignments.
CAP satisfies the Faculty of Arts Writing Requirement, and all but CAP-PPE also fulfills 3 credits of the University
Literature Requirement.
Visit the CAP website for updates and details about the streams offered.
http://cap.arts.ubc.ca
➤ MAINSTREAM TIMETABLE:
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Create a combination of 30-credits chosen from the UBC Calendar.
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There is no cohort that links the courses or ideas. Class sizes are typically large.
100-level courses are not restricted to first-year students and so are open to first, second, third, and fourth year
students.
